Too bad all the small alternatives (mostly the one lacking POSIX compliance / not trying to be unixes) fail in the applications appartment. An awesome OS is useless without applications, and even a crappy one can be considered ok by some thanks to them (Windows pre XP SP1.)
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And they make a point of not binary closed drivers to, OpenBSD crew have made a lot of wifi progress by reverse engineering instead of having closed stuff, and Linux have been able to take lots of advantage of their work. They are proud of their drivers and open-source solutions vs accepting only having a closed solution.
So, very insightful of you... I seriously doubt you've got any idea whatsoever why BSD would be better as a server either, not to mention the BSDs out there are pretty different and it wouldn't make sense to group them together like that, they don't have the same advantages. I guess it's just something you've happened to have heard somewhere, but yes, FreeBSD used to be considered superior as "a server" a long time ago, FreeBSD 5 probably lost some of that but I would assume they have catched up by now. But it all depends on what you need and how you set the system up in general anyway.
I may also add that my experience (which is 2-3 years old now eventually..) is that FreeBSD had more up to date packages than Ubuntu, and well, Debian stable? Come on..
Ubuntu refused to upgrade from memory leaking firefox 1.0.7, with ports I'm not stuck with some old shit just because. And I'm pretty sure at that time FreeBSD had newer KDE port to.
The things in ports where outdated or the binary packages? Examples? Did you updated your ports tree or used one from like 2009 q1? And as someone have already said you can set configurations for what parts you want, it's not as convenient as the use flags in Gentoo imho but at least it's there.
Will they support all DRM formats and let you download the same book in another DRM format later if you change reader?
If not most people would probably prefer to wait until the DRM is cracked and then copy the books instead of ending up with useless files.
Personally I think the devices are too expensive but when I saw the cost of the parts of the Kindle I could understand why it cost the amount it does. So I guess no e-reader for me for a while..
But chosing the name "the pirate party" is so fucking retarded, don't ask me why they didn't focused on freedom or personal integrity or something such, they would had been more respected with a different name.
Even using some words focusing on modern culture usage or something such would had worked.
You still don't answer the question though, how is this taking advantage of the inferiority of the tv sets and just not accepting the limits in hardware? As I said it's not like they would keep on using 16 colors of they could had used 256 for instance.
Yeah, you try to make as smooth gradients as possible with the number of colors at hand, so what?
Or I'm missing something..
Or is the point that you used a higher contrast than you would nowadays since the colors would blend anyway? Such as say putting a white pixel on marios say blue cap because it will look somewhat as a blurred badge vs just looking like a white pixel on a blue cap today? (Which would eventually result in just making a gradient over the cap of similar colors instead.)
Like using the bleed to blend the colors so they wouldn't need to use as many.
This is such bullshit, why wouldn't they use more if they could? Isn't the fact simply that you couldn't have more colors on the screen?
I kinda get the point if you say something like "then you could have multiple horisontal lines of different colors and then would blend together on the screen making a nice transition effect compared to having just one color on that part of the screen" but then you rather use MORE colors because you CAN.
Isn't it sort of ironic that people want perfect emulation of Atari 2600 PacMan when Atari 2600's PacMan was notoriously not like the arcade version? Even NES didn't do emulation well. I think the first well emulated game I ever played was Street Fighter 2 on SNES.
I've heard the same thing about sex games on the Commodore 64 but all I can say is: Prove me wrong!
Someone earlier mentioned how the old games was "designed" for this, I don't agree, a crappy sky was a crappy sky because you couldn't do better by then, but sure it looked better blurred out (amiga games looked better than PC games sometimes even though the PC had better graphics since people used TV sets.)
This make me believe there is a use and would be rather cool with this effect on modern games where you don't have the hardware to run it all at the resolution you have at hand (lowering details and raising resolution may give better result though..)
I think an FPS in 640x480 ran on a 1920x1080 screen with this kind of method may look rather stylish.
When I was a kid you had to say the code and input out loud to a group of men executing in with small stones in the sand. They then shouted the result to the colleague who draw the graphics by hand with a filt tip pen and 10 pieces of plastic foil melted together over a candle. The graphics piece was then put into a projector with a light so hot it burnt a hole in the plastic piece while watching it and the process was then returned. Games wasn't invented yet, all we had where work and the plague. How did you win? By having all your friends die before you? No, death itself was the winning.
You don't have anything which take analog rca audio? Connecting straight to the TV? Get a stereo system / receiver of some sort? Though, I would also had assumed even modern TVs received analog audio.
For the video composite yes, I assume you can just hook it into a composite input.
Well, I don't know, while there will most likely be big wars (omg, all muslims suck, omg, nuke and make a parking lot of the middle east, so on so on..) I doubt there will be any "omg we need to kill off all the people of worse quality so we can breed on the best übermench only.."
I mean, on my dads toilet there used to be a frame with an image of a monkey (?) eating a banana and sitting on the toilet, and all these old advertisements with black people seen with red lips and sticks and things like that, like if it was ok to mock them or assume they was inferior and such. Not that much now.. So, I can't really see how anyone would actually get serious about "omg this breed/race of people is much better than this one" and get it off in anytime soon.
So personally I assume lots of people will die in wars, but I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to try to kill of a race because they would be inferior. Heck, globalization and breeding between us all will make that even less likely to.
Poorly written I know but anyway.
Rather off-topic from growing on hair though:D, but I get the first persons post, I've seen the pictures and well, it's easy to associate the two things.
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Too bad all the small alternatives (mostly the one lacking POSIX compliance / not trying to be unixes) fail in the applications appartment. An awesome OS is useless without applications, and even a crappy one can be considered ok by some thanks to them (Windows pre XP SP1.)
Except, like, you know:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_180.51.html
But maybe a binary Nvidia driver from 21st april 2009 is too old an un-maintained for you?
And where would FreeBSD fail as a desktop OS?
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
20.000+ ports not enough for you?
And they make a point of not binary closed drivers to, OpenBSD crew have made a lot of wifi progress by reverse engineering instead of having closed stuff, and Linux have been able to take lots of advantage of their work. They are proud of their drivers and open-source solutions vs accepting only having a closed solution.
So, very insightful of you... I seriously doubt you've got any idea whatsoever why BSD would be better as a server either, not to mention the BSDs out there are pretty different and it wouldn't make sense to group them together like that, they don't have the same advantages. I guess it's just something you've happened to have heard somewhere, but yes, FreeBSD used to be considered superior as "a server" a long time ago, FreeBSD 5 probably lost some of that but I would assume they have catched up by now. But it all depends on what you need and how you set the system up in general anyway.
Didn't this happen like almost a decade ago?
http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/_daemonette/111143969_35533831ab.jpg
http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/_daemonette/freebsd-002.jpg
http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/_daemonette/freebsd-003.jpg
http://media.photobucket.com/image/penguin%20mascot%20girl/twistedliza/signature%20pics/blog/DSC00767e.jpg
http://images.celebrateexpress.com/mgen/merchandiser/38199.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/raleighdurham/1/0/u/8/-/-/Fat-Penguin-Clowns-at-Ringling-Bros-Circus.jpg
I may also add that my experience (which is 2-3 years old now eventually ..) is that FreeBSD had more up to date packages than Ubuntu, and well, Debian stable? Come on ..
Ubuntu refused to upgrade from memory leaking firefox 1.0.7, with ports I'm not stuck with some old shit just because. And I'm pretty sure at that time FreeBSD had newer KDE port to.
The things in ports where outdated or the binary packages? Examples? Did you updated your ports tree or used one from like 2009 q1? And as someone have already said you can set configurations for what parts you want, it's not as convenient as the use flags in Gentoo imho but at least it's there.
Eventually "better" screen and much better battery life?
you wrote with a real notepad and a pencil.
What? This is Slashdot.
Your method is clearly inferior, it's slow and makes unreadable texts.
Will they support all DRM formats and let you download the same book in another DRM format later if you change reader?
If not most people would probably prefer to wait until the DRM is cracked and then copy the books instead of ending up with useless files.
Personally I think the devices are too expensive but when I saw the cost of the parts of the Kindle I could understand why it cost the amount it does. So I guess no e-reader for me for a while ..
You can't believe everything anywhere, which make that argument rather lame. Would you trust whatever newspaper? What about the bible? ..
Maybe he meant patents on other drugs which have made them cheaper being able to compete more/become a better choice.
Maybe the wanted some more fuel efficient chips?
The pirate party isn't a fake party in Sweden though.
http://www.piratpartiet.se/
http://www.piratpartiet.se/storlek
We'll see if they get enough votes for the EU parlament or not.
But chosing the name "the pirate party" is so fucking retarded, don't ask me why they didn't focused on freedom or personal integrity or something such, they would had been more respected with a different name.
Even using some words focusing on modern culture usage or something such would had worked.
You still don't answer the question though, how is this taking advantage of the inferiority of the tv sets and just not accepting the limits in hardware? As I said it's not like they would keep on using 16 colors of they could had used 256 for instance.
Yeah, you try to make as smooth gradients as possible with the number of colors at hand, so what?
Or I'm missing something ..
Or is the point that you used a higher contrast than you would nowadays since the colors would blend anyway? Such as say putting a white pixel on marios say blue cap because it will look somewhat as a blurred badge vs just looking like a white pixel on a blue cap today? (Which would eventually result in just making a gradient over the cap of similar colors instead.)
Amiga 1080? Is that i or p? ;p
Like using the bleed to blend the colors so they wouldn't need to use as many.
This is such bullshit, why wouldn't they use more if they could? Isn't the fact simply that you couldn't have more colors on the screen?
I kinda get the point if you say something like "then you could have multiple horisontal lines of different colors and then would blend together on the screen making a nice transition effect compared to having just one color on that part of the screen" but then you rather use MORE colors because you CAN.
Isn't it sort of ironic that people want perfect emulation of Atari 2600 PacMan when Atari 2600's PacMan was notoriously not like the arcade version? Even NES didn't do emulation well. I think the first well emulated game I ever played was Street Fighter 2 on SNES.
I've heard the same thing about sex games on the Commodore 64 but all I can say is: Prove me wrong!
Someone earlier mentioned how the old games was "designed" for this, I don't agree, a crappy sky was a crappy sky because you couldn't do better by then, but sure it looked better blurred out (amiga games looked better than PC games sometimes even though the PC had better graphics since people used TV sets.)
This make me believe there is a use and would be rather cool with this effect on modern games where you don't have the hardware to run it all at the resolution you have at hand (lowering details and raising resolution may give better result though ..)
I think an FPS in 640x480 ran on a 1920x1080 screen with this kind of method may look rather stylish.
... and E-IPS are almost the same price as shitty TN-panels. Smaller IPS panels has been hard to come by the last 1-2 years.
And if you wear them all blue in perfect condition or don't now what a pair of Jeans are you're a nerd and a proud member of Slashdot.
Bring cloth gear! Mom, plz.
When I was a kid you had to say the code and input out loud to a group of men executing in with small stones in the sand. They then shouted the result to the colleague who draw the graphics by hand with a filt tip pen and 10 pieces of plastic foil melted together over a candle. The graphics piece was then put into a projector with a light so hot it burnt a hole in the plastic piece while watching it and the process was then returned. Games wasn't invented yet, all we had where work and the plague. How did you win? By having all your friends die before you? No, death itself was the winning.
Does it matter as long as it look good?
Jeans with various extra features look more interesting than plain blue ones.
If someone find games more interesting with this emulation layer on top well then good for them.
You don't have anything which take analog rca audio? Connecting straight to the TV? Get a stereo system / receiver of some sort? Though, I would also had assumed even modern TVs received analog audio.
For the video composite yes, I assume you can just hook it into a composite input.
Well, I don't know, while there will most likely be big wars (omg, all muslims suck, omg, nuke and make a parking lot of the middle east, so on so on ..) I doubt there will be any "omg we need to kill off all the people of worse quality so we can breed on the best übermench only.."
I mean, on my dads toilet there used to be a frame with an image of a monkey (?) eating a banana and sitting on the toilet, and all these old advertisements with black people seen with red lips and sticks and things like that, like if it was ok to mock them or assume they was inferior and such. Not that much now .. So, I can't really see how anyone would actually get serious about "omg this breed/race of people is much better than this one" and get it off in anytime soon.
So personally I assume lots of people will die in wars, but I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to try to kill of a race because they would be inferior. Heck, globalization and breeding between us all will make that even less likely to.
Poorly written I know but anyway.
Rather off-topic from growing on hair though :D, but I get the first persons post, I've seen the pictures and well, it's easy to associate the two things.